All Species Day Parade and Spring Pageant

All Species Day is an annual celebration held in Montpelier, Vermont on the first Sunday in May.  It has been celebrated annually since 1989. It begins in Hubbard Park at Noon with an opening circle calling all species and puppet performances. The Parade leaves the park  1:oo pm and heads down Main and State Streets to the Statehouse Lawn where the festivities continue with the Birth of the Spring Goddess Pageant, Morris and Maypole dancing and much more.  Everyone comes dressed as their favorite species and joins in the parade, celebrating our interconnectedness and interdependence in the web of life.

All Species Day Sunday, May 6, 2012

Come Dressed as your favorite species!

Begins at Noon Hubbard Park, Soccerfield

Calling All Species, Awakening the Spring Goddess, Spring Play at Old Shelter, Arrival of the Stag King

1:15 pm Parade Line-up Hubbard Park – Main Gate Winter Street Entrance

Parade to State House via Spring, Main and State Streets

2:15 pm Birth of Spring Pageant, StateHouse Lawn

Birth of Springtime, Flower Children’s Dance, Morris and Maypole Dances

Workshops & Rehearsal Schedule ~ Be a part of the festivities!

Mask and Puppet making Workshop ~ Saturday and Sunday April 21 & 22 1-4 pm at AllTogetherNow! All are Welcome! Families youth and adults. Come make a costume for All Species Day. Donations appreciated.

Dance Workshops – Sunday, April 29, 2 -4 pm at the Studio for Contemporary Dance. Taught by Ellen Leonard. Dance Samba in the Parade and Congo on the StateHouse steps for The Birth of Spring Pageant. Juba  too.

• Thursdays, April 26 and May 3, 12:15 pm at the Capital City Grange. Dance Juba in the Park,Yemaya on the StateHouse steps for The Birth of Spring Pageant and Paragol on the Spring Street Bridge. For those familiar with the dances.
• Tuesday, April 24, 5:30-6:30pm Juba for Park “Wake up the Spring Goddess” dance with the West African Dance Class at the Capital City Grange, 6:30 – 8 pm.  Experienced dancers welcome.

Pageant Rehearsal - Saturday May 5, 10 am – Noon at the StateHouse.  Flower Children(all children welcome), Yemayah and Congo an Birth of Spring Pageant.

Maypole Rehearsal - Saturday May 5, 12 pm on the Statehouse Lawn. Come learn the dance so you can dance the maypole on All Species Day.  youth, teens and adults welcome.

Opening Circle Rehearsal - Saturday May 5, 1:30 pm Soccerfield, Hubbard Park: Juba, Calling in the Directions, Obatala..

Janice is missing several of her puppets and would like them returned. I loaned out the hummingbird masks and costumes to someone, was that you? And at All Species Day 2011, a young family borrowed the Umbrella Turtle Puppet which did not get returned. Please bring them home.